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mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system

While working with CentOS Linux 5 & Kernel Version 2.6.18-8.1.6.e15 I was trying to mount a CIFS type filesystem.

The file share is located on a Windows Server 2003 machine located on the same network as the Linux machine.

The issue originally began when I "unmounted" the mount. After that, I could no longer "mount" it back.

The following is used to mount:

Code:

mount -t cifs //servername/fileshare /mnt/net -o user=Username,pass=Password

The following is the response:

Code:

mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

It was mounted fine only a couple days ago, and nothing has changed besides me "unmounting" the mount. So the CIFS filesystem was supported by the system a couple days ago.

Thanks for all your help, its my first month using Linux.

Don't know the answer, but it happened to me too. It went away seemingly by itself so I'm interested to hear the answer.

Just to add some extra info:

Code:

ls -al /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/cifs

Results in:

Code:

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 249124 Jun 14 2007 cifs.ko

Seems like I have the module, so I am wondering why I cannot mount with CIFS???